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With visible injuries on his face and his legs US-citizen Chris Presmyk speaks about the traumatic incident of last Saturday. Chris Presmyk, 55, his wife, 50,  and another five people were injured, when some young Greeks threw firecrackers in the middle of the crowd attending the Resurrection ceremony in the …

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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras sent a joyous message to the world of international markets on the occasion of Greece’s return to private lenders and the Resurrection of Christ. “We reached rock bottom and now we can only go up and we will only go up,” Antonis Samaras told Bloomberg …

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A young migrant from Iran says he was the target of a racist attack about two months ago in central Athens. Describing how he was attacked, he also said that one of his attackers had bitten off his ear. The man, identified himself as Shaid, said he was walking on …

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The finance ministers of Eurozone are losing patience with Greece, Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem told Greek daily Ta Nea on the day the debt-ridden country submitted its 2014 budget without the Troika approval. For diametrically opposed reasons the emotional uproar of the EUro finance ministers coincide with this of the …

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Greece could return to debt markets to test the water in the second half of 2014 if his country returns to growth in the first half of next year and manages a primary surplus, its finance minister said in a German media interview out on Monday. “That would be a …

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Maybe. Maybe not. At least Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras claimed, that Greek lawmakers were tired of austerity and that “the fatigue of MPs” could cause a political risk for Greece’s fiscal targets. Stournaras’ interview to Reuters, woke up the tired Greek MPs especially those of coalition government partner PASOK. Those …

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While thousands civil servants are confronted with the nightmare of unemployment, another Greek drama occurs every night in an air-conditioned bedroom. A man is being plagued by difficult decisions. Minister of Administrative Reform Kyriakos Mitsotakis cannot sleep. “I do not sleep well at night when I know that they will …

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Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stourrnaras picked up German tabloid BILD to recount the dull lifestyle he had to live after he was appointed to the most crucial ministerial post of the debt-ridden country. Bild reporter visited Stournaras in his office in Athens and started right away with a personal question: “He is …

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The deadlock in government formation after Sunday’s election in Italy, did not only stirred up the markets but set also the back of Germany on fire. “You’re not Greece, the eurozone can not afford for a Greek-style scenario in Italy” Berlin told Italy through Philipp Missfelder, foreign policy spokesman of Merkel’s …

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Greek poet Kiki Dimoula made it to International Herald Tribune on the occasion of her poems’ translation in English.  In an article with the title “Greek poet’s dark vision” Dimoula,81, speaks to IHT reporter about poetry but also about the crisis in Greece. Not only the economic crisis but also the …

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The three musketeers of European Union, the esteemed presidents of EU’s main bodies, the proud winners of Peace Nobel Prize,  Herman van Rompuy (European Council), Jose Barroso (European Commision) and Martin Schulz (European Parliament) have no idea how Greece managed to be accepted in the euro zone even though it had ‘cooked’ …

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Greek main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras from left-wing SYRIZA called for European debt conference and a debt ‘haircut’ for Greece and the entire Southern Europe as the only viable solution. In an exclusive interview to British daily “The Guardian“, Tsipras stressed that the austerity program is not working while it increases the …

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 Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras hit dramatic tunes about the state finances and the social situation of the country. Speaking to German daily Handelsblatt, Samaras stressed the necessity of the 31-billion-euro bailout tranche saying that Greece has money until the end of November. “Then the cash box is empty,” Samaras said. “Antonis Samaras told …

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“Greeks face an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe as health, education and public administration collapse, salaries and pensions shrink, while the unemployment is on the rise with one out of two young people without job,” Rena Dourou, MP from left-wing SYRIZA, told Austrian newspaper “Wiener Zeitung“. “The policies of IMF bring nothing except deeper recession and …

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Greeks got the feeling, that the climate is changing, it’s turning from negative-rejecting to positive- supportive. Some hints in this direction came from here and there yesterday, claim the Greek media.  The country’s international lenders hint Greece may get the desired two-years extension. That apparently the total message from the Eurogroup meeting in Nicosia on …

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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras revealed the dramatic situation of Greece’s finances : “Without the aid tranche of 31 billion euro, Greece will go bust.” Hours before meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Friday,  Samaras sent his message to the iron lady of Eurozone saying also that Greece’s “economy is …

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Just hours before the crusial meetings with Euro Group head Jean-Claude Juncker, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras sent his message to the world of Greece’s lenders: We need a little breathing space to revive Greece’s economy,  the drachma would be a catastrophe, Samaras told …

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 Chief of euro group Jean-Claude Juncker warned that the euro zone would break apart and urged the EZ and EU leaders to save the currency union saying ‘there was no time to lose. Speaking to German Sueddeutsche Zeitung,  Juncker also criticized German officials for their statements about a Greek euro exit. In …

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Economist Nouriel Roubini, the man who had been pushing Greece to exit the euro area for two consequent years, made a U-turn. “Stop supporting Greece would cause the euro zone to collapse” Roubini said in an interview to German daily BILD. He warned that a Greek exit would also trigger …

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 Head of International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde gave a “heartbreaking” interview to British daily The Guardian. The compassionate ,  Madame Lagarde assures she keeps “thinking all of the time of the little children in Africa” saying they “need more help than the [impoverished] children of Athens.” Lagarde Carrying IMF aid to …

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